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Hi again. Spoke to fitter today. As Agile says, he reckons flues are indeed side by side. When they get into the loft space, reckons an angled block has been fitted the wrong way round, hence neighbours flu goes out of my vent. Says the party wall will be so warm as when built, it would...

Thanks for comments. Sherbet - house built about 1973/4. Complete layman as I say, so chimneys/soot makes me think of real fires(!), not gas. As mentioned, neighbour's fitter did establish ( I am assuming with a smoke test) that fumes going through the vent tile on my side of the roof...

Thanks Tony - do appreciate warm is not a particularly technical term! :) Effectively believe that's what fitter did next door, but if there has been a bodge with the flue, must be very low down for the wall to be getting hot where it is!

Hi all, complete and utter layman here trying to get some advice. Apologies for the length of post! I live in a semi-detached dormer-roof house. There are two pre-cast flues along the ridge tiles of the roof, one on my side, one on my neighbours. I have an electric fire and my neighbours...